Text & Fonts

^AFont Selection

Selects a font (A–Z, 0) with orientation and size for a field.

Category
Text & Fonts
Syntax
^Afo,h,w

What ^A does

^A selects the font used to print the following ^FD data. Fonts A–H are fixed bitmap fonts with set dimensions; font 0 is scalable. The letter after ^A is the font name, then orientation, height and width.

Syntax

^Afo,h,w

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionValuesDefault
fFont nameA–Z, 0
oOrientationN, R, I, B
hHeight, dots
wWidth, dots

Example

^XA
^FO50,50^ADN,36,20^FDFont D^FS
^XZ

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